Will the Zune Social Kill the External Zune Social?

Posted by Chris Leckness on 11/14/07

I used to play Everquest on and off for more than 6 years. I have played several MMORPGS before. With Everquest I, there was basicly a website external to SOE that was member run for each server and there were also general forums too. The server forums were great because you could arrange event, chit chat, etc.

With Everquest II, SOE came with there own forums. These ended up washing out the server forums. World of Warcraft's official forums are the only truely popular forums as well.

Now Microsoft's Zune.net is the "Official Zune Forums", so where does that leave the other great forum communities like Zune Thoughts, ZuneBoards, and Zunerama? Chances are that forum traffic will stay ok, but I fear that they may not grow much since new users are going to a) catch Zune.net #1 in search engines for Zune terms eventually, b) Microsoft has you go to Zune.net to sign up so new users are already there and c) the Zune Team Members are posting there.

I run forum communities as well and I have seen how things work with these type things.

I don't think this will happen overnight and checking in on the Zune forums I read, the traffic has increased this week. What will it be like in 1 month, 3 months, etc...

I understand companies doing their own Forums, but I don't like it at all. I guess I am being greedy, but I think 3rd party forums really help in more than one way, but I won't get into my theories on the subject here.

I am wishing the great Zune Forum Communities all the best!

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6 Responses for "Will the Zune Social Kill the External Zune Social?"

Noble November 14th, 2007 at 7:03 pm 1
I dont post much on any message board let alone Zune boards, but I have posted on the Official Zune boards. They really seem to be building a real community over there and its fun to look through the posters zune cards. I lot more people are into Zune then I thought.
Chris November 15th, 2007 at 9:24 pm 2
i hope to hell it does not. IF anything it might promote it, because if you talk with some one zune to zune it gets there name and asks if you want to be his/her friend. So people may look for people more often
Jaxim November 15th, 2007 at 10:40 pm 3
I was thinking about this too the other day. I had posted a number of questions/feedback on the new software/firmware on Zunerama’s forums, but then I found out about Zune.net’s forums, so I reposted the feedback there partly in hopes that the ZUne team would see my comments. I think when it comes to feature request and bug reporting, Zune sites many lose those much of those comments, but I think there is room for other sites like goZune to fill in some of the gaps that zune.net leaves out.
Jaxim November 15th, 2007 at 10:41 pm 4
I was thinking about this too the other day. I had posted a number of questions/feedback on the new software/firmware on Zunerama’s forums, but then I found out about Zune.net’s forums, so I reposted the feedback there partly in hopes that the ZUne team would see my comments. I think when it comes to feature request and bug reporting, Zune sites many lose those much of those comments, but I think there is room for other sites like gotZune to fill in some of the gaps that zune.net leaves out.
Jaxim November 15th, 2007 at 10:42 pm 5
sorry about the double post.
Feel free to delete this and the extra post.
XCG3 November 20th, 2007 at 6:12 pm 6
If the online social may be cool but there is nothing better than finding a person out there with a zune.

I actually found a random zuner in starbucks. I was absolutely facinated